You what I am longing for in terms of fashionable bags? A nice lightweight tote that serves as a shoulder bag to carry my lunch to work. I have such a bag now and worry what I will do when it gets old and torn -- it is red in color with stylish black piping and two vertical bands and has the name Brocade on it with just the right size and font -- it is a freebie from an IT company called Brocade that my husband got. It is like the grocery bags that everyone is obliged to carry now but only more stylish.

The bags are technically three dimensional, but if you looke carefully at the video you see how the trick works: What you see appears to be the front and a side panel of a "normal" bag, but the front and side pannel are actually on the same side of a very flat overall object.

You said they're available on Amazon like that is a good thing. Bwahahahaha.

Me, I just ordered two hard cover copies of a book, using the link here. One is a gift, one is for me. My book takes 6 days to get here, the gift, for the same exact cost, takes 11 days. Both are using USPS and I am charged to the postage.

Odd...I can get items ordered in Bangkok here faster. Only Apple rivals my latest Amazon experience, with about 3 weeks to get an iPad2 from Apple direct, "in stock," ...but in China, heh heh.

Note that book order took only 28 minutes to enter and manage to get Amazon to ship mine to my known identity and address and the gift to a different identity and address, but billed to me. They made the gift as hard to enter as possible, with more questions than I'd get if trying to enter the Pentagon buk nekid.

Oh, and those hand bags are hideous. Somebody said "hard ass dudes" carry them in the article. Uh, which of those dudes do you think is "hard ass?"

Crack Sez:Ann, you Boomers have had the stage for 60 years now - how much more of your kind of "fun" can we stand?

We're BROKE, specifically because you're so feckless, and you think we need more?

No kidding. I am so incredibly tired of the nonsensical crap that gets thrown down my throat everyday. It's unbelievable nonsense. Green Energy. High Speed Rail trains. Importing Poverty that pays far less in taxes than the demographic consumes. Destroying marriage as the cornerstone of society. We eat too much. We drive too much. And at each turn, there is a nonsensical, unsustainable government solution thrown together that borrows money from our kids to keep it afloat.

If there's one thing I hate, it's you guys think you're being clever. Here's Dante's response to my comment:

I am so incredibly tired of the nonsensical crap that gets thrown down my throat everyday. It's unbelievable nonsense. Green Energy. High Speed Rail trains. Importing Poverty that pays far less in taxes than the demographic consumes. Destroying marriage as the cornerstone of society. We eat too much. We drive too much. And at each turn, there is a nonsensical, unsustainable government solution thrown together that borrows money from our kids to keep it afloat.

Got anything smart-alecky to say to THAT, or are you going to stick to trivial snark as your hallmark?

I bet it's what you deliver because, ultimately, it's all you've got,...

FWIW, as a Boomer I've spent 40+ years pissed off that a minority of other Boomers highjacked the generation I'm part of, and were given waaay too much exposure for their crap ideas. I'm long since tired of being heaped with guilt by association with them.

And, as a Boomer, I'm with Astro. Never liked being associated with the campus creeps and I like it less as the years go on.

I just hate the fact my adult life has been spent trying to stop what people like Ayers and Dohrn have been allowed to get away with when a lot of us thought the country we inherited was the best there ever was.

Crack, don't ever assume the Boomers are monolithic, 'cause nothing could be further from the truth.

If it won't make us look like a monolithic group, I am going to agree with Astro and Edcutcher. I'm sick of being grouped in with the liberals/progressive/hippie political culture just because of my age. That type of political thinking has ruined this country and are deliberately trying to destroy us.

OK.. I admit, I associated with the hippie types in my youth in SF. You couldn't help but be around it. HOWEVER, I never bought into the groovy, communal, mantra filled and YES...cultish behaviours. The best thing from the hippie culture was the non political arts and crafts revivals. The rest of their ideas were cracked.

Especially considering the birth years for boomers spread from 1946 to 1964.

Not true - the dates have been revised, though it's taking a while for the information to reach the public. The Baby Boom lasted from 1946 to 1960.

1960 to 64 are now considered a separate mini-boom, called Generation Jones, and is marked culturally by a profound turning away from the Baby Boom.

To Astro, edutcher, and DBQ - I know. I tend to speak generally, and trust the more intelligent amongst us understand that.

I've met Boomers who violently curse the image they've been stuck with, the dumb ideas they're forced to live with (mostly because of peer pressure) and the decline of the nation because of them.

But what are we to do? When any stab at maturity is seen by an Ann Althouse as making us Gloomy Gus' - and this, after Glenn Reynolds blew her off a few days ago with the highly-nuanced, and exceedingly brilliant Boomer argument of "I don't care" - after 60 years of such people in power, isn't flame-throwing the lot of them (and sorting bodies out later) the only thing left to do?

When I look around, at what are essentially my big brothers and sisters, and see what a mess they've made - not only of our country but right down to the water's edge of my life - only to have them turn to me saying "I don't care" and suggesting I should join in their idiotic "fun," it's enough to make me want to scream, kill, and die. Because I know their I've-got-mine-you-get-yours game, and that what they deserve (and never got) is a few repeated swift boots in the ass, which they've protected themselves from ever receiving.

"I bought one!" is about as deep as Ann knows how to get. "I don't care" is about as good as Glenn Reynolds can argue. They rub our faces in it, because they know no one can stop them.

It's a shameful world when the only ones who meet their proper fates are Saddam and Gaddafi,...

Well, don't fuck with me for no reason. There's a certain number of you old timers who know I'm not fucking with anybody, but will not be fucked with, and if some of these others don't like my ego, that's their issue - not mine. You see the mess I have to deal with around here nowadays - all these self-appointed Crack critics - why give those assholes ammo, a reason to cheer, or an opening?